Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Exercise for killer calf muscles

This is an exercise bound to give you calf muscles the envy of any bicyclist or basketball player. It tones and shapes your muscles while burning fat.

Take a three-year-old boy, approximately 25 pounds in weight. Turn on some music with an aggressive rhythm (tonight's selection included Bon Jovi, The Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rob Zombie, and The Ramones), and start jumping up and down. Don't stop for 45 minutes.

For an added level of difficulty, do whatever the boy tells you to do. Typical commands include "jump up and down," "go side-to-side," "run up the stairs," "faster" (I get this one a lot, usually paired with another command. E.g., "Jump up and down...faster"), and, my favorite, "spin around...faster." The last command is code for "make yourself throw up." For best weight loss results, perform immediately after eating.

Trust me, this is a killer routine. After developing the routine tonight my calf muscles are killing me.

mw

1 comment:

Katherine said...

I'm just wondering if by chance your wife was gone on a church commitment...
The music selection, the activity of the evening and the resulting energized boy point to dad being in charge :)